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TAIL DOCKING: To the correct length with no bone scars. The
pup's tail will look as if it was born naturally docked. Re-dock after you
receive a pup because of irritation due to poor surgery, or the
breeder not correctly following up on care of the docked tail during
healing can leave the tail with an irritation that seems to never heal
or never heals because it is bothering the dog who continues to try
and clean itself. Corrective surgeries will run upwards of $300.00 on
an older young dog (meaning past weaning), and weeks of discomfort
will follow because the vet is not longer dealing with soft tissue but
an operation almost as complex as the removal of a leg. On the
upside the docking of a tail when a pup is a few days old takes only
moments and put immediately back with mom it simply goes back to
nursing.
For those that have never owned a happy breed with a long tail, tail
injuries are very common, very common and uncomfortable to the
dog plus costly. The docked tailed dog can't get the tail stomped on
by a mean cow or torn by thorns in the bush or slammed in a gate or
door by the kids, or you, or stepped on or have something dropped
on it. Some times damaged by some free roaming street fighter.
DEW CLAWS REMOVED: Dew claws are the thumb-like
appendages on the inside front paws just above the toes...some dogs
we have seen with rear claws also. Breeders many not bother with
these front or back but again older dog surgeries can run as much as
a re-docking of a tail. Yet left on they can get torn of by brush or cut a
child or adult during play as clean and easy as a knife would. Dew
claws become razor-sharp, damaging clothes and cutting the human
play partners on the legs and arms during interactive times; thus
removal is for your safety and the dogs safety. These extra claws can
catch on even a carpeted stairs and off to the vet because of torn
ligaments.
pup's tail will look as if it was born naturally docked. Re-dock after you
receive a pup because of irritation due to poor surgery, or the
breeder not correctly following up on care of the docked tail during
healing can leave the tail with an irritation that seems to never heal
or never heals because it is bothering the dog who continues to try
and clean itself. Corrective surgeries will run upwards of $300.00 on
an older young dog (meaning past weaning), and weeks of discomfort
will follow because the vet is not longer dealing with soft tissue but
an operation almost as complex as the removal of a leg. On the
upside the docking of a tail when a pup is a few days old takes only
moments and put immediately back with mom it simply goes back to
nursing.
For those that have never owned a happy breed with a long tail, tail
injuries are very common, very common and uncomfortable to the
dog plus costly. The docked tailed dog can't get the tail stomped on
by a mean cow or torn by thorns in the bush or slammed in a gate or
door by the kids, or you, or stepped on or have something dropped
on it. Some times damaged by some free roaming street fighter.
DEW CLAWS REMOVED: Dew claws are the thumb-like
appendages on the inside front paws just above the toes...some dogs
we have seen with rear claws also. Breeders many not bother with
these front or back but again older dog surgeries can run as much as
a re-docking of a tail. Yet left on they can get torn of by brush or cut a
child or adult during play as clean and easy as a knife would. Dew
claws become razor-sharp, damaging clothes and cutting the human
play partners on the legs and arms during interactive times; thus
removal is for your safety and the dogs safety. These extra claws can
catch on even a carpeted stairs and off to the vet because of torn
ligaments.
| Tails and declaws |